"It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life."

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Source : "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

Jerry Greenfield

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“That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.”
“The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.”
“There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.”
“There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.”
“I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.”
“If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.”

Source : Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.211, Penguin
“The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.”
“In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.”

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